cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3882090
Reader would work for like 90% of people, but no, everyone needs Standard or Pro because reasons.
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In the case of my users, it’s more like:
“I need licensed Acrobat Pro bc Reader tells me I need Pro to send PDFs.”
They don’t realize they can send the PDF any other way just fine - email attachment, Google Drive, hell even AirDrop. They just try to share the PDF from within the Reader app, get that message, and give up. Mildly annoying at worst.
The problem is IT (me included) had installed Adobe Pro for years apart of the image no matter what.
Then licensing became more of a pain, and we don’t really have a great way of telling if a user needs Pro or Reader.
Luckily with OS upgrades from 7 to 10 most of us fixed that and just made Reader available and Pro as a request.
We use pdf xchange. Low one time payment for the license, everyone gets it. Done, and done.
Okular is decent, and open source
Imagine using uwieldy Acrobat to read pdfs instead of Foxit or Sumatra or some shit.
Foxit isn’t what it used to be. It’s just as unwieldy and intrusive as Adobe. I remember how lightweight it used to be.
Sumatra ftw however.
I work university IT and anyone using just Acrobat from CC will be moved over to Foxit Pro. I’m sure everyone will love it…
Is there anything acrobat does better than alternatives? I’m a blubeam man myself but that’s probably industry specific. I guess it could have better form field organization and linking.
BB users unite! Maybe if we are loud enough, they will actually make a true arc markup tool rather than the current paraboloid/conic tldisaster they call an “arc”.
Acrobat has a decent “auto create form fields” feature that I haven’t seen anywhere else and it saves me a lot of time
Fuck that, Bluebeam is 900% better
Bluebeam is overwhelming. It’s great for reading construction plans, but there’s so many features I never feel like I’m using it effectively enough.
Sounds like you need to switch it to the simple profile, because yeah, there’s a lot of commands that most people won’t ever need, taking up space in the GUI.
I use Gnome document viewer on Gnome and Okular when on KDE when viewing PDFs.
For editing PDFs, always was used to PDF Studio. I heard LibreOffice Draw is decent but never bothered trying it as I am happy with my current workflow… for now.
PS: PDF Studio is a one time purchase
Just like Microsoft office users, stop buying office and just download LibreOffice.
I haven’t used LibreOffice for about 5 years, but my experience 5 years ago was that MSOffice was a better program. PowerPoint’s auto design wizard alone has saved me dozens of hours making presentations.
I want libre to as good or better, but it just isn’t there.
ah, my beloved, hp instant ink addiction
PDF24. Is that a program on the right track?
